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Optimising Optimising results of results of protected area protected area management management efforts – a efforts – a capacity building capacity building workshopworkshop
Sportsman’s Arms Hotel, Kenya 27Sportsman’s Arms Hotel, Kenya 27thth Nov – 1st Dec Nov – 1st Dec
Management Management effectiveness effectiveness evaluation: evaluation:
IntroductionIntroduction
What is management effectiveness evaluation ?Why is it an issue?
What can we gain by evaluating management?Why a Framework for evaluation?
What is management effectiveness evaluation?
‘..the assessment of how well a protected area is being managed – primarily the extent to which it is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives’ WCPA Guidelines (2006)
It includes consideration of• design issues• the adequacy and appropriateness of management
systems and processes• and the delivery of protected area objectives including
conservation of values
Why is management effectiveness an issue?
• Protected areas are critical for in-situ conservation• Most protected areas are subject to multiple serious
threats and many are degraded• 1992 review of protected areas found that three of
the five most common threats were management deficiencies rather than direct impacts on resources
• 1992 World Parks Congress identified effective management as one of four major protected area issues of global concern
• Management Effectiveness Evaluation was most popular workshop at 2003 World Parks Congress; 2003 WPC Delegate survey identified inadequate monitoring and evaluation as most serious barriers to effective management after inadequate funding
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Management is not easy
• Implement management strategies and processes
• Management objectives
• Systems of governance
• Adequate and appropriate resources
by recording, observing and talking about the changes we see in the environment and looking for their causes
by encouraging a culture where we look and reflect on our management
by helping us to learn from our mistakes and our successes
Why would we bother?
1. Evaluation can help us manage better
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Adaptive management
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
by signalling global and local changes and threats
showcasing management techniques for broader landscape management
It identifies priorities for actions Helps to show real resource needs
3. Evaluation promotes accountability and transparency The community see how their parks and
forests are managed Baselines can be established for
partnerships, agreements, trusteeships and contracts
2. Evaluation assists in effective resource allocation
Involving traditional owners, community members and scientists gives us more credibility and helps build good relationships
Increasing public action to support parks: Showing the community the need for better resourcing of the parks system and alerting them to threats
4. Evaluation can help involve the community, build constituency and promote protected area values
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Who wants to know about protected area effectiveness?
• Managers of individual protected areas
• Funding agencies: GEF, The World Bank
• NGO’s: WWF, TNC, CI• PA Agencies: Finland, Canada, India,
New South Wales, Australia• Conventions: UNESCO World
Heritage, CBD
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Why WCPA framework – why not one methodology?
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diversity of needs and circumstances
Different purposes for evaluation
Different circumstancesDifferent spatial and
temporal scalesDifferent issuesDifferent audiencesDifferent capacities
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diversity and ConsistencyNeed for appropriate evaluation
standardsAvoid re-invention of “wheels”Harmonisation of data to enable:
• Learning across sites/regions• Identification of common
needs/challenges• Development of global and regional
responses
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What do you think we need to consider?
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
Management Effectiveness Capacity Building Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
WCPA assessment framework
Effectiveness Appropriate-ness
Effective-ness
EfficiencyEconomyAppropriate-ness
StatusFocus of evaluation
Impacts: effects of management in relation to objectives
Results of management actions Services and products
Suitability of management processes
Resourcing of agency Resourcing of site
PA legislation and policyPA system designReserve designManagement planning
SignificanceThreatsVulnerability
National policy Engagement of Partners
Criteria
OutcomesWhat did we achieve?
OutputsWhat were the results?
ProcessHow do we go about it?
InputsWhat do we need?
Planning Where do we want to be?
ContextWhere are we now?
Elements
of evaluation
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Thank youThank you